VIRTUAL EVENT—"Vote with your Hands or your Feet?"
2020-10-29 15:45 - 17:00 UTC | GA
“Vote with your Hands or your Feet?”
The virtual panel discussion, “Vote with your Hands or your Feet?,” is presented as part of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics at Georgia State University’s “Ethics and the 2020 Elections” discussion series. This discussion will explore whether voting in place or exercising a freedom to move elsewhere is best for securing key political interests, and how historically, we often trace political participation to a place of residence.
Panelists will include Michael Evans, senior lecturer of political science of Georgia State University; Andra Gillespie, director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University; and Ilya Somin, professor of law at George Mason University.
This virtual panel discussion is free and open to the public to attend, but registration is required.
The “Ethics and the 2020 Elections” discussion series is supported in part by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

From Being Property to Owning Property
2020-10-29 17:00 - 18:00 UTC | GA
From Being Property to Owning Property
This virtual presentation from the Mitchell Young Anderson Museum in Thomasville will provide a brief history of the Stevens Street District in Thomasville, one of the few remaining and intact African American neighborhoods built after the Civil War. Included in this presentation is part of the museum’s story itself—it was formerly a boarding house in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that stood at the heart of the Stevens Street District on Oak Street.
The presentation will feature Gylbert Coker (the museum’s executive director), Jan DeCosmo, Eboné Amos, Lililita Forbes, and Juliana Forero.
The event is free and open to the public to attend on Zoom. At the time of the event, visit Zoom online or through the app and enter the following details: the event’s meeting ID is 873 2848 3950 and the event’s password is 489767.
This event is supported in part by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

VIRTUAL—Nothing Is Stable: Diana Al-Hadid artist talk
2021-01-28 17:00 - 18:00 UTC | GA
Nothing Is Stable: Diana Al-Hadid artist talk
Syrian American artist Diana Al-Hadid will give a talk in conjunction with her exhibition Nothing Is Stable at the Ernest G. Welch Gallery of Georgia State University (GSU).
The New York-based artist is acclaimed for her intricate sculptures and wall panels that combine traditional and contemporary materials and techniques. Visually and thematically, Al-Hadid draws on Middle Eastern and Western cultures and iconographies, often combining and re-contextualizing wide-ranging historical sources. She has found inspiration in ancient maps, miniature painting, architectural designs, and illuminated manuscripts.
The Welch School of Art & Design and the Center for Collaborative and International Arts at GSU have collaborated with Art Papers to present this artist talk.
This virtual event is free and open to the public, but registration on Zoom is required.
This event is sponsored in part by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

VIRTUAL EVENT—A Conversation with Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Calvin Trillin
2021-02-04 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | GA
An Education in Georgia: Then and Now
To kick off a campus-wide reading event to celebrate the 60th anniversary of desegregation at the University of Georgia, UGA alumna Charlayne Hunter-Gault will participate in a conversation with longtime New Yorker columnist and author Calvin Trillin to discuss his book An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration of the University of Georgia (UGA Press). The conversation will be moderated by Valerie Boyd, Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence, associate professor, Journalism, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, UGA.
This event is free and open to the public to attend, but registration is required.
This event is sponsored in part by the New Georgia Encyclopedia, a program of Georgia Humanities.

Lillian Smith: Anti-Racist Ally Panel Discussion
2021-02-21 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | Online
Lillian Smith: Anti-Racist Ally Panel Discussion
Join the Athens branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), in partnership with the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia, for a virtual panel discussion of Lillian Smith and a screening of the documentary film Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence.
The documentary (2020, Dir. Hal & Henry Jacobs) will be available to registered attendees for pre-screening from February 15 through February 22, 2021: https://lilliansmithdoc.com/private-screening-ally
On February 21, 2021 at 2:00PM, join the virtual panel discussion, “Lillian Smith: Anti-Racist Ally.” Distinguished discussants include Patricia Bell-Scott, professor emerita and author of the award-winning book The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship-Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice and Matthew Teutsch, professor at Piedmont College and director of the Lillian E. Smith Center. The session will be moderated by UGA professor Barbara McCaskill and Kim Waters of Athens ASALH.
Please register for the panel discussion here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pEttDmR-TIWxcT3v3ghjAA
Lillian Smith (1897–1966) gained national recognition as the author of Strange Fruit (1944) and Killers of the Dream (1949). Her writings challenged white southerners to end segregation, and she actively fought to dismantle Jim Crow with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Black activists. (Read more about Smith in the New Georgia Encyclopedia.)

VIRTUAL EVENT—Centering the Native South: A Roundtable on Native Pasts and Futures
2021-03-05 17:30 - 19:00 UTC | GA
Centering the Native South: A Roundtable on Native Pasts and Futures
In this roundtable conversation hosted by the Society of Early Americanists, three scholars of Indigenous histories in the Southeast will discuss their scholarship, while reflecting on the ways that early Indigenous histories bear on the present and future. The conversation will highlight and build on their research, which attends to Indigenous women’s lives and histories, as reflected in both written documents and material culture, to collective projects of education and care within Indigenous nations, and to the connections between Indigenous pasts and presents. The distinguished panelists are Dr. Brooke Bauer (Catawba; University of South Carolina, Lancaster), Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery (Lumbee; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and Dr. Julie L. Reed (Cherokee; Pennsylvania State University).
The program is co-sponsored by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, an independent research organization sponsored by the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
This virtual panel discussion is free and open to the public to attend, but registration is required.
This event is supported in part by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

VIRTUAL EVENT—Coffee and Islam: A Conversation
2021-03-07 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | GA
Coffee and Islam: A Conversation
The Arabic word marqaha describes the euphoric feeling that one experiences when drinking coffee. Join journalist and lecturer in Yale University’s School of Divinity Abdul-Rehman Malik, and Dr. Abbas Barzegar, affiliate faculty at the Lilly School of Philanthropy at Indiana University, for a conversation about the role of coffee in Islamic culture, from its botanical origins in Ethiopia to its nocturnal associations with Sufi mysticism and the ways in which Muslim traders and European thieves turned it into a worldwide commodity—and a social revolution that changed the world.
Dr. Barzegar, who also owns Ebrik Coffee Room and Roastery, will demonstrate how to brew the perfect cup at home using a special blend, Marqaha Moments, developed in conjunction with the exhibition Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam Through Time & Place.
This event is held in conjunction with the Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam Through Time and Place exhibition at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University.
The event is free but you must register on Zoom to attend. Click HERE to register.
This program is made possible in part by Georgia Humanities.

Revival: Lost Southern Voices
2021-03-24 13:00 - 2021-03-27 17:00 (America/New_York) | GA
Revival: Lost Southern Voices is a celebration of lost or underappreciated southern writers’ work. During this free and virtual literary festival invited authors and scholars discuss writers whose literary voices no longer receive the attention and reading they deserve.
On March 24 former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey gives a keynote address, followed by five additional sessions over several days. Register for the Trethewey event here:
On March 25th and 26th there will be presentations about William Gay, Ella Gerturde Clanton Thomas, Alice Walker, Padgett Powell, and many more.
On March 27, there will be an entire session devoted to James Baldwin’s work. To register for any or all of these events, go to the Revival: Lost Southern Voices Facebook page.

Democracy & the Informed Citizen: The Role of Local News
2021-03-25 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | GA
In conjunction with Georgia Humanities’ Democracy and the Informed Citizen initiative, a special virtual panel will take place this Thursday, March 25 at 7p. This installment is hosted in partnership with WALB News in Albany. The one-hour discussion will focus on the important role that local news has played during the COVID-19 pandemic and the work being done by journalists to combat misinformation. Panelists include Jill Holloway, managing editor at the Post Searchlight (Banbridge), Marcus Howard, author of How Journalists and the Public Shape Our Democracy: From Social Media and “Fake News” to Reporting Just the Facts, and Alden Lisse, Valdosta native and student at UGA’s Grady College of Journalism. The panel will be moderated by Karla Heath-Sands, WALB News Anchor.
To register for this FREE panel event CLICK HERE.
This virtual event is part of a multiyear initiative, featuring a series of community conversations that explore the essential role that the humanities and journalism play in creating an informed citizenry, and in turn, a healthy democracy.

Hyperlocal Summit
2021-04-07 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | GA
Join The Atlanta Press Club for a roundtable discussion featuring the journalists and publishers filling the gaps and pushing the envelope in Atlanta media! This virtual event is free and open to the public. Register for the event here.

River to Sea: History and Literature, Ecology, and Culture in Southeast Georgia, "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood": Lecture by Janisse Ray
2021-09-23 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc., 3025 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, 31405, United States
Memoirist and nature writer Janisse Ray recounts and redeems her unique upbringing in a junkyard near the Altamaha River. Her book, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, is the inspirational embrace of humble origins and has been celebrated as a classic of American writing.

River to Sea: History and Literature, Ecology, and Culture in Southeast Georgia, "Poetry of the Water": Lecture by Carlyn Bland
2021-09-30 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc., 3025 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, 31405, United States
Poet and writing teacher Carlyn Bland explores the many and varied literary reactions to rivers and marshes, coastlines and beaches, islands and estuaries. Using Lanier’s “Marshes of Glynn” as a starting point, she leads a literary journey centering on the water.

River to Sea: History and Literature, Ecology, and Culture in Southeast Georgia, "Rivers of Power on Georgia's Coast": Lecture by Christopher Manganiello
2021-10-07 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc., 3025 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, 31405, United States
Historian and policy expert Chris Manganiello demonstrates how through the centuries humans have exploited Georgia’s rivers to fit their needs. He shows that rivers can give or take away the power of humans, and how the human spirit adapts.

River to Sea: History and Literature, Ecology, and Culture in Southeast Georgia, "The Savannah: The Story of a River and Its City": Lecture by William Bryan
2021-10-14 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc., 3025 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, 31405, United States
Environmental historian Will Bryan examines the history of the Savannah River from the pre-colonial era to European settlement and into the modern day. He also contextualizes the historic city of the banks of the Savannah that shares the river’s name.

River to Sea: History and Literature, Ecology, and Culture in Southeast Georgia, "The Tragedies of Ebo Landing": Lecture by Dionne Hoskins-Brown
2021-10-21 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc., 3025 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, 31405, United States
The 1803 mass suicide of enslaved people at Glynn County’s Dunbar Creek is recounted by historian Dionne Hoskins-Brown. She reveals the desperation of slavery through lyrical motifs about the Back body, water, and life and death in coastal Georgia.

Common Good Atlanta: Breaking Down the Walls of Mass Incarceration with the Liberal Arts
2022-01-20 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Decatur First Baptist Church, 308 Clairemont Avenue, Decatur, GA, 30030
This Georgia Seminar will take a behind-the-scenes look at the nationally recognized prison education program, Common Good Atlanta (CGA), founded by Sarah Higinbotham of Oxford College and Bill Taft. Since 2008, an all-volunteer consortium of 70 faculty from six universities have taught the liberal arts in four prisons, plus a downtown course for prison-impacted people. The program received a 2019 Governor’s Award for the Arts & Humanities and was a 2019 finalist for the American Civic Collaboration Awards, which highlight outstanding initiatives working to collaborate across divides at the national, local and youth levels. At the heart of the program’s mission is that broad, democratic access to higher education for people affected by incarceration strengthens the common good of our communities.
The documentary film Common Good Atlanta: Breaking Down the Walls of Mass Incarceration, by Hal Jacobs, looks at the impact of the program on both students and instructors. Incarcerated students find an intellectual freedom that encourages growth and dignity, while instructors find an environment for the liberal arts that is stimulating and trans-formative. A talkback will follow the screening.

Common Good Atlanta: Behind the Scenes, Part 1 (Alumni)
2022-01-27 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Emory University Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, 1635 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA, 30322
The seminar will bring together Common Good Atlanta alumni to share their experience s and the program’s impact on the community. The following topics are ripe for discussion: efforts of those in higher education to reach across the community, the detrimental effects of mass incarceration on the community, an American penal system that is more focused on retributive justice than restorative justice, and how scholarly learning can take a rigorous and creative approach to reaching nontraditional students.

Common Good Atlanta: Behind the Scenes, Part 2 (Founders)
2022-02-03 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Emory University Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, 1635 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA, 30322
The seminar will bring together Jamil Zainaldin, Emory faculty, and Common Good Atlanta founders Sarah Higinbotham (Oxford College) and Bill Taft, to share their experience s and the program’s impact on the community. The following topics are ripe for discussion: efforts of those in higher education to reach across the community, the detrimental effects of mass incarceration on the community, an American penal system that is more focused on retributive justice than restorative justice, and how scholarly learning can take a rigorous and creative approach to reaching nontraditional students.

Common Good Atlanta: Behind the Scenes, Part 3 (Faculty)
2022-02-03 18:30 - 2022-02-10 20:00 (America/New_York) | Emory University Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, 1635 North Decatur Road, Atlanta, GA, 30322
The seminar will bring together Common Good Atlanta faculty from Morehouse, Georgia State State University, and Georgia Tech to share their experience s and the program’s impact on the community. The following topics are ripe for discussion: efforts of those in higher education to reach across the community, the detrimental effects of mass incarceration on the community, an American penal system that is more focused on retributive justice than restorative justice, and how scholarly learning can take a rigorous and creative approach to reaching nontraditional students.

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert
2022-04-21 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Auburn Avenue Research Library, 101 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, GA, 30303, United States
Join Georgia Humanities and the Auburn Avenue Research Library for a discussion of the book Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, by Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly. A professor at Tufts University, Erin Kelly will be in conversation with Patsy Rembert, widow of Winfred Rembert, who died in 2021.

An Evening with Nic Stone
2022-06-03 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Hyatt Regency Atlanta, 265 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA, 30303, United States
The Children’s Literature Association invites you to join them for a conversation with Nic Stone, moderated by the Auburn Avenue Research Library. The conversation will include her books for young adults, Atlanta, and social justice. The event is free and open to the public and will include a book signing following the discussion.

Summer Author Series featuring Ashley Callahan
2022-08-04 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Rome Area History Center, 305 Broad Street, Rome, GA, 30161, United States
The Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home will host author and independent scholar Ashley Callahan on August 4 from 6:30-7:30 pm at the Rome Area History Center as part of their Summer Author Series. Callahan will discuss her book Frankie Welch’s Americana, published by the University of Georgia Press in partnership with Georgia Humanities.

Confluence 2022
2022-09-10 19:00 - 2022-09-17 17:00 (America/New_York) | GA
CONFLUENCE 2022 explores the intersection of environment, arts, and activism. Presented by Meridian Herald and supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities, CONFLUENCE events will merge music, literature, visual arts, environmental sciences, and community. Learn more »

The Man in the Mirror: Exploring the Career and Ideology of Rev. Joseph L. Roberts
2022-09-21 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Ebenezer Baptist Church, 101 Jackson Street NE, Atlanta, GA, 30312, United States
Join Ebenezer Baptist Church as they welcome Atlanta community members to discuss the life and career of Rev. Joseph L. Roberts. Panelists will discuss the ideology of Rev. Roberts’ social activism, political thought, and theology through first-hand accounts. The discussion will be moderated by Autumn Smith. This event is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

French Speaker Series Featuring Les Nubians (Hélène and Célia Faussart)
2022-11-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual Program
Grammy-nominated sister duo Hélène and Célia Faussart will engage in a Q&A with Augusta University faculty. Sponsored by the Department of English and World Languages and the Department of Music, this virtual event series highlights academic work in languages other than English.
This event is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

The History of the Appalachian Trail with Dayton Miller
2022-12-11 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual Program
Author Dayton Miller will discuss his book “The History of the Appalachian Trail in North Georgia” as part of the Georgia Council for History Education’s Between the Spines monthly discussion series. Supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities, this virtual event is free and open to the public.

GCHE: Between the Spines Monthly Book Discussion with Edmund de Waal
2023-01-08 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual Program
Author Edmund De Waal will discuss his book “The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance” as part of the Georgia Council for History Education’s Between the Spines monthly book discussion series. Supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities, this virtual event is free and open to the public.

Lillian E. Smith Center: "Jim Crow, the Holocaust, and Today" Panel Discussion
2023-01-26 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Piedmont University – Student Commons Ballroom, 1021 Central Avenue, Demorest, GA, 30535, United States
The Lillian E. Smith Center Lecture Series presents “Jim Crow, the Holocaust, and Today,” a panel discussion considering the influence of the United States’ legal and extralegal policies on the Nazi government. The panel will also address how authors, artists, philosophers, historians, and activists noted the connections between Jim Crow and the Holocaust.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Andrew College: Author Talk with Dr. Jake Newsome
2023-01-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | GA
The Lela B. Phillips Arts and Lecture Series at Andrew College presents a discussion with Dr. Jake Newsome, author of Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out of the Shadow of the Holocaust.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.

Bethlehem Baptist Church: Breathing and Buried in Bethlehem
2023-02-25 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Bethlehem Baptist Church, 475 Dividend Dr., Peachtree City, GA, 30269, United States
Join Bethlehem Baptist Church in Peachtree City to learn more about one of Fayette County’s oldest churches. Dr. Ann McCleary, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History at the University of West Georgia, will share stories about the legacy of the church and the community of ancestors interred in the cemetery. A cemetery walk will follow the presentation.
This program is supported by a grant from Georgia Humanities.
